Xerox PARC file system archive goes public, preserving foundational computing history
ArtificialOther · x · 2026-11-05
The Computer History Museum has made the Xerox PARC file system archive publicly accessible, preserving original files from the lab behind the GUI and object-oriented programming. The article frames it against the ancient anxiety of record fragility: digital information has been unreliable and hard to preserve since computing's beginnings, making this rescue backup historically significant.
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